Endorsements

American Federation of State Municipal and County Employees Local 1724

Democratic Party of Lane County

Lane County Central Labor Chapter, Oregon AFL-CIO

Oregon League of Conversation Voters

Working Families Party of Oregon

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555

The Mother PAC

2013 Campaign Endorsements

Over nearly a decade I have had the privilege of working closely with Claire Syrett, candidate for the Eugene City Council. First, as a colleague at Lane Community College, she taught in the Flight Technology Program. For the past eight years she has been supervisor to many of my student interns through LCC’s Cooperative Education program, where she has provided inspired training and direction to my students working with both the American Civil Liberties Union and the Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network. What I can say about Claire, without reservation, is that she is one of the most dedicated, intelligent, hard-working and gracious colleagues I’ve had the pleasure to know in my professional life at LCC. Her compassion and commitment to social and economic justice in our community and her willingness to work with and train our students in those pursuits should make her an excellent public official, and one of whom we can all be proud.

Claire with Eugene Mayor Piercy and Councilor Ortiz

Steve CandeeInstructor, Political ScienceCoordinator, Cooperative EducationLane Community College

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IN THE NEWS

Eugene City Council Joins anti-TPP Efforts

On January 11, 2106 the Eugene City Council unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty currently being considered in Congress. City Councilor Claire Syrett sponsored the strongly worded resolution at the request of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Councilor Syrett urged the council to pass the resolution because the TPP represents an assault on workers' rights and environmental protection as well on the authority of local or state governments to adopt regulations design to protect the environment and workers.

EUGENE MAKES PROGRESS HOUSING HOMELESS VETERANS

Operation 365 spearheaded by Eugene Mayor Piercy and City Manager Jon Ruiz has reached its goal of finding permanent housing for over 360 homeless veterans in Eugene. This was the results ofmany months of coordinated effort by policy makers, service providers and property managers to identify ways to get the remaining vets housed. The main challenge is finding single and one bedroom units in our tight rental market. This effort is part of the Housing First model which is now being embraced by federal agencies and others as the most cost-effective and humane way to help homeless people, especially those who have been chronically homeless, get into safe housing and accessing services successfully.